Tabitha teaches English in Japan. Or she did, but after losing her job on Christmas Eve, insecurity overcomes her. Just as nothing is going well in her life, Tabitha meets a dubious girl at a Shinto shrine. Her advice can change Tabitha’s life but only if she has the courage to take it.

While hiking the scenic Mission Peak Trail together, Jusleen and Michael discover divisive differences between their values. For personal reasons, she identifies as Taiwanese while he identifies as Chinese. The Mission Peak Adventurer illustrates how environment shapes the Pan-Asian identity of the American-born second generation and the disconnect between Eastern and Western sensibilities.

Welcome to Marib, Yemen: the land that Sheba forgot. Or at least most of the modern world, until Al Qaeda and its putative successors made it a tableau for terrorism, civil wars, kidnappings and death; where the German called home, a man who had had no reason to live finally found one while searching for death. Goodbye.

Ted Chang was simply a middle-aged grouch who couldn't find any good in anything. Lonely, and embittered by the holiday cheer in a Chinese restaurant celebrating Chinese New Year, he can’t even respond to a woman who makes a casual, friendly comment. When a live, prancing horse blazing with heatless flame appears, Ted does something crazy for the first time in his life.

In A.D. 641, the captain of Princess Wen Cheng’s bodyguard devotes every moment of his life to keeping her safe. The princess is traveling in a huge caravan from the Chinese Empire to Tibet to become the bride of the Tibetan king. Captain Lin finds a magic mirror that can help him serve the princess but what can a mere bodyguard do, caught between a princess and a minister, an emperor and a king?

Tod Ong, a young guy beset by bad dreams and inner conflicts of which he’s not even aware, accepts a gift from his younger sister: A poster, reproducing a painting of a woman of Chinese descent from the 1940s. He considers it just another poster until, one night, the woman in the painting steps out into his bedroom as a living human.

Seven-year-old Trenton Lo loves basketball and Star Wars and most of all, his family and Guangdong Barbecue, the restaurant they’re desperately trying to run in Toronto, Canada. Until one day, Trenton opens the door to their rather evil fairy godfather.
"Amazingly descriptive. Five stars." Hisham El-far, Goodreads
"I would love an entire YA novel about the Lo family." Caelegh Snow, Goodreads

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Rebel gives a rare insight on how it all began. Two teens recruited to fight a revolution that prompted Martial Law in the Philippines, fight to keep each other in the raging political and cultural transformation brought by the late 60’s. Then life happened and they woke up in the 80's.

In the aftermath of World War 2, two returned soldiers try their luck in the outback goldfields of Western Australia. Murder and mystery abound involving tribal aborigines and greedy fortune hunters. The book details the tribal life of the aboriginal people, their black tracking skills and their customs. Police/aboriginal conflict is a highlight of the book.

It is not an easy time for young people to try and make their way in the world: economic malaise, student debt, and political turmoil all contribute to the difficulties youth have in finding their place.
Kosei's Conundrum: Coming Up for Air is the story of a young Japanese college graduate without a place for him to surface. Until, in desperation, he hits upon a possible solution.

Desiree D’Souza is determined to take Mumbai by storm with her fledgling interior design company. To do so, she needs to nail a pitch for the famous Baron Hotel expansion. But her plan is seriously threatened when her nemesis, and teenage crush, Jarryd Baron blackmails her.
Jarryd Baron will do anything to restore the Baron family hotels to glory, including blackmailing a woman he despises.

Professor Molly Barda is thrilled to be included in a grant to investigate attitudes toward biotechnology. But she immediately finds herself embroiled in the deadly fight between big biotech and anti-GMO activists. When Molly and her best friend Emma Nakamura stumble onto the scene of a brutal murder, they realize everyone has something to hide--and there are some questions you just don't ask.